Warm waters may bring manta ray sightings to mid-Atlantic coast

11:59 PM,
Aug. 2, 2012

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BETHANY BEACH -- While Dave McBain has vacationed in Bethany for 17 years, nothing has been quite as exciting as what he witnessed on the beach one evening this week.

On Tuesday, McBain and his family were on the beach for some early evening fishing and paddle ball when his son spotted something jumping out of the water. The "thing," he believes, was a manta ray.

"You could tell right away, the distinctive shape, it was in full view to us," McBain said. "This thing just (breached the surface) just like a whale, straight up, nose out of the water. It had to be 10 foot wing to wing." ...